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...write about a lonely, tax-delinquent business owner who would call you sometimes just to talk. Did people often lean on you emotionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Tax Collector | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...place to stumble on inspiration. Poetry books and recordings surround the few tables in the spacious reading room, which overlooks Tercentenary Theatre. The spire of Memorial Church stands tall against the blue sky. If you get bored of writing that paper, you can put on your reading glasses, lean back on a blue couch, and toss open an anthology of Wallace Stevens or the latest issue of the Kenyon Review. You can also go to the computer at the front of the room and contribute to the Woodberry Poetry Room Daily Poem, which was started to celebrate Lamont's 60th...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Harvard's Finest Study Spaces | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...melodies so much as emotions; their music is the heartbeat that gives movie images instant and lasting resonance. Jarre, who died in Los Angeles on March 29 at 84, put this knowledge to use in his first famous scores: the heroic theme that lent a galloping grandeur to David Lean's 1962 Middle Eastern western, Lawrence of Arabia, and the chorus of balalaikas in Lean's 1965 Doctor Zhivago that promised ecstatic reunion after the grimmest separation. In a half-century of movie work, Jarre wrote the music for more than 150 features, but it's his underscoring of Lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maurice Jarre | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...complies with its obligation to extend its customs union with the E.U. (in place since 1996) to Cyprus. Turkey will not do that unless there is tangible progress in ongoing talks about a political settlement on the island. But for this to happen, big E.U. countries will have to lean more heavily on the recalcitrant Greek Cypriots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't Europe and Turkey Get Along | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...tomorrow you can lean back and relax, safe in your knowledge that the poor soul crossing all fingers and toes...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Our Unofficial Admissions Predictions | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

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